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Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« on: 14 December 2010, 22:47:55 »
Took a car in today to the only mot centre in the home town. Parked outside was a white van abput 10 meters awzy.

So what do reckon the white van was?

a. An icecream van getting ready for extra ice cold ice cream sales before christmas?

b. An burger van doing turky and stuffing birgers, discounted for the festive holiday season?

c. A white VOSA transit van with 4 cameras on its roof, with front and back floor cameras, checking the satus of every vehcile for tax, mot and insurance of every car going into thr mot  station?

 Guessing you might know where this is going, is it me or are the taking the p.
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #1 on: 14 December 2010, 22:50:45 »
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Took a car in today to the only mot centre in the home town. Parked outside was a white van abput 10 meters awzy.

So what do reckon the white van was?

a. An icecream van getting ready for extra ice cold ice cream sales before christmas?

b. An burger van doing turky and stuffing birgers, discounted for the festive holiday season?

c. A white VOSA transit van with 4 cameras on its roof, with front and back floor cameras, checking the satus of every vehcile for tax, mot and insurance of every car going into thr mot  station?

 Guessing you might know where this is going, is it me or are the taking the p.
seems like it. :o
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #2 on: 14 December 2010, 22:50:59 »
Bet the garage owner was happy, dodgy gits  :(
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #3 on: 14 December 2010, 22:53:51 »
probably having there dinner ::)

there only interested in tax and clamping a moving vehicle is pretty difficult.
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #4 on: 14 December 2010, 23:21:14 »
I read another very similar thread to this a minute ago. ::) ;D
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #5 on: 14 December 2010, 23:27:44 »
Where has my post gone?...... ::) ::)
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #6 on: 14 December 2010, 23:29:17 »
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Where has my post gone?...... ::) ::)

Which post? What? Eh? Did someone say something?  ::) ::)
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #7 on: 14 December 2010, 23:36:39 »
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Where has my post gone?...... ::) ::)

Which post? What? Eh? Did someone say something?  ::) ::)

Story of my life...... ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #8 on: 14 December 2010, 23:39:19 »
interesting how they can tell if a car has mot, tax and insurance on it, but how can they tell the person driving the car is a) the owner and b) the one that holds the insurance policy.

must be hit and miss with a few cars

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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #9 on: 14 December 2010, 23:41:48 »
Often see a VOSA transit with 4 cameras on top around here, driving around all the little roads  >:(
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #10 on: 14 December 2010, 23:50:07 »

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interesting how they can tell if a car has mot, tax and insurance on it, but how can they tell the person driving the car is a) the owner and b) the one that holds the insurance policy.

must be hit and miss with a few cars


They just do the owner anyway regardless of who's driving.  :(
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #11 on: 15 December 2010, 09:19:55 »
More likely to be checking up on the MOT centre than the punters, IMHO - you know, when someone with a Westfield turns up and it takes 15 minutes to MOT it, they make sure the tester then sits on his @rse for another 30 minutes before logging it off and starting the next car. >:(

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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #12 on: 15 December 2010, 10:20:47 »
love it i have to pay my tax why should some think they can get away with it  !!!!!
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #13 on: 15 December 2010, 16:28:40 »
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love it i have to pay my tax why should some think they can get away with it  !!!!!

Totally agree with you, however, a lot of people with more than one vehicle(s), tend to have some cars laid up, obviously you need an MOT before you can obtain road Tax, so people who are making the effort to get their cars legal are automatically going to receive a 'Not displaying Tax fine', when their next stop after the MOT could be the Post Office.

I think its just an easy way of grabbing more money of Car owners.
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Re: Whats that white van outside the MOT centre
« Reply #14 on: 15 December 2010, 16:38:10 »
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Totally agree with you, however, a lot of people with more than one vehicle(s), tend to have some cars laid up, obviously you need an MOT before you can obtain road Tax, so people who are making the effort to get their cars legal are automatically going to receive a 'Not displaying Tax fine', when their next stop after the MOT could be the Post Office.

I think its just an easy way of grabbing more money of Car owners.
 :-/


.. but you can legally drive an untaxed vehicle to a test centre for a pre-booked test, so, short of identifying those who hadn't bothered to pre-book I can't see who they'd be pulling. Uninsured, perhaps? I wouldn't have thought an MOT station would have provided rich enough pickings compared to parking up on any main road, TBH, unless they are checking out the test centre itself.

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